Skip to main content

disquiet

/dis-kwahy-it/US // dɪsˈkwaɪ ɪt //UK // (dɪsˈkwaɪət) //

忧虑,烦躁不安,焦虑,不安

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to deprive of calmness, equanimity, or peace; disturb; make uneasy: The news disquieted him.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. uneasy; disquieted.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounworry; mental upset
Forms: disquieted, disquieting

Examples

  • Liang, still suffering the effects of a traumatic childhood back in China, thrashes violently in his sleep and trudges through his days in a fog of disquiet.

  • Do both symptoms perhaps point to the same internal disquiet?

  • The show articulated a precise brand of feminine disquiet that my grad school friends and I could relate with.

  • As they got lower and lower down the hill, her wretchedness and disquiet became acute, to the point of a wild despair.

  • The disquiet indicated resembles rather that attending the uncertainties of the Nile campaign.

  • Yet, conscious that he had said nothing that was wrong, he felt no disquiet.

  • Do you ever sigh and disquiet your heart, Christian pilgrim, because God has not given you wealth and worldly ease?

  • Her gentleness touched him but caused him disquiet, too, because he could not help realizing that a great part of it was apathy.